Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 19

"The thing is silly that you are come to seek," said the miller; "for the king has laid his mind on him so greatly that you will not get him in any way unless you steal him; but if you can make out a way, I will keep it secret."

Who acts: thing, miller, you, king · What happens: be, come, seek, say, lay, not get · To what, where: you, mind, king, way, miller · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Conall Yellowclaw. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing, miller, you, king), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 silly	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 thing	det
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 silly	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 silly	cop
5	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 come	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 come	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 come	aux:pass
9	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 silly	advcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 seek	mark
11	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 come	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 silly	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 miller	det
16	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 laid	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 laid	punct
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 king	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 king	det
21	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 laid	obl
22	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 laid	aux
23	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 said	conj
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 mind	nmod:poss
25	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 laid	obj
26	on	on	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 laid	obl
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 greatly	advmod
29	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	34 get	advmod
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 get	mark
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 get	nsubj
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 get	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 get	advmod
34	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 laid	parataxis
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 get	obj
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 way	case
37	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	38 way	det
38	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 get	obl
39	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	41 steal	mark
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 steal	nsubj
41	steal	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 get	advcl
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 steal	obj
43	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 make	punct
44	but	but	CCONJ	_	48 make	cc
45	if	if	SCONJ	_	48 make	mark
46	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	48 make	nsubj
47	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 make	aux
48	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 silly	conj
49	out	out	ADP	_	48 make	compound:prt
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 way	det
51	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 make	xcomp
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 keep	punct
53	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	55 keep	nsubj
54	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 keep	aux
55	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 make	advcl
56	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 keep	obj
57	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 keep	xcomp
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 silly	punct
59	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 silly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	the thing			silly property	tree rules
2	come in a quote	present · passive		you			tree rules
3	seek in a quote	to-infinitive					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	the miller				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	lay in a quote	present · perfect	the miller not said here	king's mind		for the king; on king	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent mind=Result for king=Beneficiary
6	not get in a quote	future	you	king	any way	greatly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
7	steal a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you	king			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme
8	make out a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	can	you	a way			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
9	keep in a quote	future	the miller = miller	miller		secret property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
10	mind in a quote		king				nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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